This comparison of
wiki hosting services or wiki farms is not comprehensive, it details only those '
notable
Notability is the property
of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibi ...
' enough (in Wikipedia terms) to be included. A useful comprehensive comparison of wiki farms can be found on
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It is used on Wikipedia and almost all other Wikimedia websites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata; these sites define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWi ...
's site, at
mw:Hosting services.
Online services which host
wiki
A wiki ( ) is an online hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project, and could be either open to the pub ...
-style editable
web pages. General characteristics of cost, presence of advertising, licensing are compared, as are technical differences in editing, features, wiki engine, multilingual support and syntax support.
Table of services
This table compares general information for several of the more than 100 wiki hosting services that exist.
[
"WikiMatrix - Compare them all" (selectable table),
WikiMatrix, 2007, webpage]
wikimatrix-org-main
All the mentioned services have
WYSIWYG
In computing, WYSIWYG ( ), an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, is a system in which editing software allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed d ...
editing.
Deprecated wiki hosts
This section is for hosts that were previously in the list above but no longer are up and running.
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Wikispaces
See also
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Collaborative real-time editor
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Collaborative software
Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals. One of the earliest definitions of groupware is "intentional group processes plus software to support them".
As re ...
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Comparison of wiki software
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List of collaborative software
This list is divided into proprietary or free software, and open source software, with several comparison tables of different product and vendor characteristics. It also includes a section of project collaboration software, which is a standard fea ...
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List of wiki software
Standard wiki programs, by programming language
JavaScript-based
* Lively Wiki is based on Lively Kernel and combines features of wikis and development environments. Users can create and edit application behavior and other content.
* Tid ...
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List of wikis
This article contains a list of notable wikis, which are websites that use wiki software, allowing users to collaboratively edit content and view old versions of the content. These websites use several different wiki software packages.
Table
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Wiki software
Wiki software (also known as a wiki engine or a wiki application), is collaborative software that runs a wiki, which allows the users to create and collaboratively edit pages or entries via a web browser. A wiki system is usually a web applicatio ...
Notes
References
External links
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mw:Hosting services. Much longer list of
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It is used on Wikipedia and almost all other Wikimedia websites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata; these sites define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWi ...
-based wiki farms and hosting services. It is longer because each host does not have to meet the
notability requirements of Wikipedia articles.
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Wikimatrix, with interactive selection of wikihosting services based on user preferenceFarms on WikiApiaryList of MediaWiki-powered wiki farms with various statistics.
WikiFarmat WikiIndex.
WikiFarms - wikiteam - tools for archiving wikis
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Wiki farms
A wiki hosting service, or wiki farm, is a server or an array of servers that offers users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis. Wiki farms are not to be confused with wiki "families", a more generic ...
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